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Building a Learning Community
Building a Learning Community gethopscotch: One of our goals at Hopscotch is to create a learning community where Hopscotchers can learn from, and be inspired by, others. Platforms like GitHub, Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube have shown us how powerful it is to enable members to learn from each other. Our release today (featured in the…
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pi-slices: Soccer / rendersketchgame – 140725_02
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wired: ScratchJr is a new iPad variation of the Scratch programming language, a tool created at MIT to help teach kids to code. The premise for both is the same: instead of text, Scratch uses interlocking colored blocks to mimic the logical structures and functions of a typical grown-up programming language. MORE: Finally, a Way to Teach…
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Technically it’s malware. But there’s no patch yet, and pretty much everyone’s got it. Homes up and down the block are lit up, even at this early hour. Thankfully this one is fairly benign. It sets off the alarm with [dubstep] music I blacklisted decades ago on Pandora. It takes a picture of me as…
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Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other. Donna J. Haraway…
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marcys-mareep: adventure time literally explaining colonialism in 30 seconds
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(via ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten | MIT News Office)
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Amanda Phillips, Dissertation abstract: “Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games” “Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games.” Supervised by Rita Raley (chair), Alan Liu, Bishnupriya Ghosh, and Lisa Nakamura. This dissertation is a transdisciplinary study of video games and gaming culture that builds on a foundation of race-conscious feminist and…
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This group struggled with how humor and minimalization would dilute their message, and their writing and discussion of their project indicated to me that they had a more nuanced understanding of both colorblindness and intersectionality than Equality Street might otherwise suggest. This was a problem that came up in multiple groups: how do they balance…
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Make games, make friends. Listing of many many game jams (via Indie Game Jams)